UK's biggest trade union threatens London Olympic disobedience

PanARMENIAN.Net - The leader of Britain's biggest trade union has threatened "civil disobedience" during the London Olympics in response to the UK government's austerity measures.

Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, said workers should consider using strike action to disrupt the Games as part of their campaign against the government's spending cuts.

The left-wing union leader dubbed "Red Len" told The Guardian newspaper that attacks on public sector workers were "so deep and ideological" that targeting the Games would be justified.

"If the Olympics provide us with an opportunity, then that's exactly one that we should be looking at," he said.

"The attacks that are being launched on public sector workers at the moment are so deep and ideological that the idea the world should arrive in London and have these wonderful Olympic Games as though everything is nice and rosy in the garden is unthinkable," McCluskey added.

McCluskey said that, because of the seriousness of the issues at stake, he was encouraging the public to engage in "all forms of civil disobedience within the law" in the campaign against cuts, Fox News reported.